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    Larkin

    LAR-kin

    Meaning

    Fierce; Rough; Like a lark

    Irish/English origin · Unisex

    What it points to

    Larkin awakes early to sing — joyful noise before dawn, the lark who praises before seeing, glory awakened with the psaltery.

    Verses · King James Version

    “O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.”

    Psalm 95:1

    “Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.”

    Psalm 57:8

    Most used in the 1880s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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